September 4, 2015

Mya Byrne twitter post

The following is a comment left on folk singer Mya Adriene Byrne’s public facebook page by a woman who is disturbed by the 40 year old male’s loving depiction of repeatedly masturbating into his sister’s underwear as a teen, a recollection published last month in a transgender zine.

Mya Byrne was until last year known as Jeremiah Byrne. Mya now conducts feminist seminars for men, calling on a “New Feminism” that centers male concerns.

Here is the letter to folk artist Mya Adriene Byrne from a young woman and former fan:

“Mya Byrne:

I listened to you as a younger teen, back in 2007, 2008. I’ve always loved good folk. I appreciate your work for that.

Unfortunately, however, I am not sure I can any longer separate the work from the artist. I have something disturbing I need voiced, and your facebook artist page is the only route of opening up this wound. I do this on facebook trusting that I will not have a barrage of hate and activists sending me threats due to your response- to which, I personally do not want one. I want nothing to do with this beyond publicizing that this is the current state of your “feminism” as a public figure.

How could you write the poem “Garments”? Or, rather, why is there a poem called “Garments” credited to your full name on page 15 in this zine, writing about you as a twelve year old-almost a teenager- masturbating in your sister’s underwear, and why is it credited to just this recent June? And how could you excuse the misogyny in this work, in this group? Why are you featured in a zine that has others excusing and fetishizing child abuse and sexual harassment against women, with your poem directly followed by someone’s account of longtime violent gore and tentacle porn use?

I hesitated in this because of your sister. I want no harm to the women in your life stemming from this, but since you felt it was appropriate so recently to write such a piece…I don’t know anymore.

Had anyone else been that boy, as an older sibling, what would you have done? Please don’t do this to the LGBT community. Don’t do this to us.

This is absolutely not something the rest of the LGBT community should be saddled with explaining away.

It’s not so much the fact that you did this habitually in your youth, which is beyond troubling, it is the fact that you, even as a well-realized adult approaching 40, felt it was appropriate to revisit, to fondly reminisce on, to allow this published in a zine that is frequently shared among the trans community and younger mtfs. Do you condone young boys doing this? Do you condone, encourage, support adult men stealing the underwear of their mothers, sisters, of their daughters, just for the sake of sexual gratification? This is violence. This is abuse. Feminists do not sexualize their then vulnerable, younger sister’s undergarments routinely as a teen, and indulge in it as an adult. Feminists do not condone this behavior in others.

I am honestly afraid, because of the likely backlash I may face as airing this horror of a work, and appalled, and repulsed. I am also in deep sympathy to your family following this being made common knowledge outside of a niche community hidden deeply on the net. I have the most sympathy for your younger sister, and I hope that she has siblings besides yourself that she can trust as a female in a sexist world. I hope that she is okay.

126 Responses to “Dear Folk Singer Mya Byrne: Masturbating in your sister’s underwear makes you a predator, not a woman.”

Well, the link above says
– This content was removed at the request of M. Byrne –

My ex did the same but with his mothers petticoat. He told me of it on a number of occasions. He also had a mother madonna thing going.
One day I tore a singlet top with spaghetti straps by accident that he was wearing and he became enraged, to the point of violently attacking me.
He told me later that it had reminded him of the one he used to use that belonged to his mum and my damaging it made him do to me what he did.

So are we supposed to have a sadz because he was “shamed” by a woman? Why, that lowly cleaning lady! How DARE she be understandably freaked out by seeing this guy prancing around in his sister’s underwear? Who does she think she is, anyway?! She MADE him throw away his precious fetish object!

“I am honestly afraid, because of the likely backlash I may face as airing this horror of a work, and appalled, and repulsed.”

Our letter-writer is afraid to speak out against a man fondly remembering, in a poem, the sexual violation of his sister. Our letter-writer is afraid to defend girls and women from male violence.

But you know who isn’t afraid? The man who wrote a poem celebrating the sexual uses, the many thrills, of little girls’ underwear. The man who — poor thing — was once ashamed of fantasizing and masturbating into his sister’s panties while wearing her training bra, but who isn’t ashamed anymore.

And, why should he be ashamed or afraid? There’s no reason to worry too much; he feels pretty safe. Most people agree that a man’s erection and orgasm is much, much more important than a girl’s or woman’s humanity, personhood, right to boundaries. And not just other men agree, but plenty of women as well. Women like Chana Rothman, apparently, if she supports him still.

Jeremiah/Mya has it made. His poem is proof of that. He risked almost nothing in publishing it. He can rest easy knowing that those of us who hate his guts — those of us who wouldn’t care if he fell into a pit filled with vipers — will be properly berated and silenced for hating the poor, beleaguered transwoman.

He also felt totally safe, or thrilled by the chance of being found out, fantasizing and writing about this in public. On the BART train. Probably looking for a chance to grope or “accidentally” rub up against a captive female. How dare he claim to be a feminist.

I don’t have any males in my house. But whenever I throw out under “garments” I will be cutting them up. I recall a previous thread talking about some asshole tran dumpster diving for used tampons. Womyn born womyn could not fathom this shit happening until we read about it.

How does this guy have the nerve to take ownership of something as disgusting as this? He should be beyond ashamed of using his sister’s underwear and training bra as masturbatory tools. The fact that he did it and then wrote about it is mind boggling to me. This “poem” is a sick, incestuous second violation of his sister. I wonder how she feels about learning about this and then knowing that he shared it with the world.

What a selfish, selfish man, to do this to his sister. I can’t imagine how appalled she must be.

“The new transgender policy comes as social attitudes about sexuality and gender are undergoing major changes. The Supreme Court recognized a constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry, and the gender transition of Olympian Bruce Jenner from male to female — Caitlyn — has brought new awareness about a group often ostracized by society.”

Only by the brain-dead, only by the brain-dead.

I can’t afford dental care, so soon I will be a toothless old hag (yay!) because Medicare doesn’t cover it, along with eyeglasses or a variety of other things, yet this is in the works.

These men would like for me to kill myself right now, I suppose, but I won’t give them the fucking satisfaction.

Having to share a hospital room with a femulator would be horrifying enough, but people generally are in the hospital for a limited length of time. This will presumably also apply to long term care facilities. Yes, males will be assigned as a roommates to elderly women with dementia. What could possibly go wrong?

Also, besides the things you mentioned, Medicare will not cover hearing aids or insulin. Insulin. I found this out only recently from an 80 YO friend who has type 2 diabetes. She has to pay out-of-pocket. And of course no abortions and plans have to jump through all sorts of hoops to over contraception coverage because of the delicate spiritual sensibilities of religious people and their angry sky gods. All relatively cheap items. But super-expensive SRS, hormone treatments, etc. are okey-dokey no problem? Something’s out of whack here.

Hi OldPolarBear: I’ve mentioned on this forum the number of hoops that morbidly obese people have to jump through in order to get insurance coverage for weight loss surgery, IF their plans cover it in the first place. It tends to take at least 18 months of appointments and other screenings to get it approved, and I’d hazard that only a third of plans cover it. This is even when the doctor himself or herself indicates that a patient’s serious medical problems are due to morbid obesity.

No doctor has ever indicated to a patient, “Your high blood pressure is due to your gender identity issues.” How are gender change procedures getting the green light by the insurance companies when no medical commodities are associated with gender identity disorder? Some of the associated meds for gender change are $1500 a month.

I strongly agree that elective surgeries for trannies should not be prioritized over the dental, vision, and hearing needs of literally millions of Americans. The cost of 1 elective trans-surgery is around $90,000. This would cover dental care, eye glasses and / or contact lenses, and hearing aids for several hundred people. And what happens when trannies want to do the reassignment surgery multiple times? There is one English person who has gone to and fro 3 times! How selfish!

As a person who has struggled with sexual abuse – partly because it has been affecting my own sex life in regards to feeling safe with men or even safe with anyone – it’s very disturbing that some autogynephilac person feels that what they did is something to be praised. This is the same way that sexual predators probably reminisce about what they did to their young victims.

It’s disgusting and incredibly disturbing. I wonder how his sister really feels about this.

Good point AppleGirl. He’s so emboldened by his male privilege and trans entitlement that he feels perfectly comfortable and safe sharing the fact that he repeatedly masturbated with his sister’s undergarments. Clearly he’s expecting something: sympathy and praise for hurting his sister in this way. Disgusting.

Indeed. He obviously doesn’t give a shit about her feelings then or now. I can’t imagine how I would feel if a family member did something like that to me and then proceeded to tell the world about it.

Jeremiah Byrne was the tranny who harassed Kate Pierson because she didn’t sing things in the exact words he wanted, even though she was trying to support his ilk. He’s that much of an abusive, misogynistic asshole. And now he’s proud of this revolting behavior against his sister (and yes, it was against her, not just her belongings). What a sick, sick man. His soul is sick to its very core.

Jay Caron if the stigmatization of women’s genitals is of primary concern, seems like a more pressing concern would be the stigmatization of women’s penises September 2 at 11:34pm · Edited · Like · 11

A bunch of men totally and completely denying that female genitalia is or even has been a symbol of male disgust/scorn/ridicule, while simultaneously being outraged, scornful and disgusted by these “vagina” cupcakes. One asked for “sources” for the historical stigmatization of female genitalia. This is an irony-free zone. The women are mostly groveling but the frankensteins will not abide. They will not be happy until women agree that women eating dick cupcakes is more appropriate for Womanfest Auckland.

AUSA – Auckland University Students’ Association
Yesterday at 4:07am
Hello all,
We would like to apologise for the delay in posting this. We have read and acknowledge all the posts and comments made on the event. Honestly, we were overwhelmed. Before we could give a sincere response, we needed to discuss the situation.
Womensfest is a week of events for a diverse community of women. We, like past Women’s Rights Officers, have strived to encompass as much as we possibly can. Women are truly diverse, and one week cannot encapsulate all of this. The title “Womensfest” is by no means meant to suggest that all individual events speak to the experiences of all women. It would be impossible to run an event that did so, or defined all women. Each event aims to cater for different groups of students on campus – those that identify as women and others. Featuring them all in a week reflects the many diverse experiences of women on campus, not to mention those off campus and in other parts of the world. Discussion around abortion, for example, is not necessarily relevant to all women, but is nonetheless an area about which discussion in Womensfest could be (and has been) relevant.
We stand by our decision to hold the Vagina Cupcake event. We acknowledge that issues were raised with the event in the planning stages. After being notified, we did consult with a number of groups and people on campus to rethink. We regret not consulting more widely and having a discussion to address these concerns in an open and collaborative way. The purpose of the event is to celebrate a part of the body which some people have, and which throughout history has been regarded with disgust and been portrayed as something people should be ashamed of.
We intend that the event not be restricted to vaginas – we welcome vaginas, penises, hairy armpits and anything beyond. We acknowledge that not all women have vaginas. The event is open to all genders, and is meant to be a fun, interactive activity which celebrates some aspects of being a woman, for some women.
We don’t agree that we have only included trans inclusive events in a tokenistic way. We have actively tried to include as many women as possible in our events, and this is very important to us. We have given direction for the UN Youth Model United Nations event to discuss and debate a trans focused resolution. The “What does it mean to be a feminist?” panel discussion also involves both queer and trans speakers – amongst others – speaking about feminism from their perspectives.
We intend for this statement to be a response, and will not be commenting on every Facebook comment or post – the comments can be overwhelming, and sometimes conflicting. Instead, we would like to extend an invitation to anyone to meet in person in a mediated situation to discuss any concerns. In particular, we would love to engage in a discussion with the Campus Feminist Collective and Feminists of Colour. If these groups do withdraw their events from Womensfest and run them separately later on in the year, we would encourage everyone to continue to attend these.
Women’s Rights Officers and the Executive of the Auckland University Students’ Association

“We don’t agree that we have only included trans inclusive events in a tokenistic way.” Whenever males are allowed in things suddenly become all about them, no matter how small their numbers. This is what not having a biological women focus/intention leads to.

“We intend that the event not be restricted to vaginas – we welcome vaginas, penises, hairy armpits and anything beyond. We acknowledge that not all women have vaginas. The event is open to all genders, and is meant to be a fun, interactive activity which celebrates some aspects of being a woman, for some women.”

If I wanted to attend an event that wasn’t for, by, about and restricted solely to natal women of any orientation, I’d go to a public event that everyone, no matter who, could attend–which sounds like that’s what they intend.

Academics really need to stop and think–and quit being soft-headed about this. They’re allowing the tail to wag the dog.

Aaaah!
“Discussion around abortion, for example, is not necessarily relevant to all women, but is nonetheless an area about which discussion in Womensfest could be (and has been) relevant.”

T H I S.
This is why I won’t shut up and play nice. Fuck this.

“could be/has been relevant”???

There is currently one, ONE, clinic that provides abortions in the entire state of Mississippi. It will be closed if the Supreme Court decides not to hear their appeal.http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/texas-abortion-clinics-ask-supreme-court-keep-them-open
The article cites an argument that I have long made about the value of a woman’s life versus that of an un-self-sustainable embryo (an argument that, I’m embarrassed to say, I somehow never associated with patriarchy until my recent discovery of radical feminism.) “Both the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists oppose such restrictions, saying they would leave women less safe by closing down clinics. The state of Texas’s “own data shows that, in Texas, the risk of death from carrying a pregnancy to term is 100 times greater than the risk of death from having an abortion,” the clinics point out in their petition. ”

So, tell me again, “Womanfest”, how the rights of women to not be forced into reproductive slavery (or terrible complications, or death) is an issue that “could be” or “has been” relevant to women. Let’s instead waste our limited resources apologizing to men for hurting their fucking feelings. Thanks a lot, Womanfest.

The comets were impressive for just a general redditt board, it gave me some faith in humanity. It gets followed by porn-sick M2T woman-hater trying to blame the exclusion of penis cupcakes on ‘redstocking’ radical feminism.

People are noticing the erasure of women’s traditions and events by these narcissistic males demanding that all females follow their lead in the woman’s space. They assume their needs come first, because they are a men among women- and male privilege tells them it is still their right to control what women are allowed to enjoy.

I could see them pushing penis cupcakes on women at women’s events, photographing them, and pubic ally declaring them bigots for not eating a penis cupcake and allowing a photo. The whole event will take on a sexually abusive -creepy feel by men that are probably getting a boner over public sadistic treatment/torture of powerless women.

Penis cupcakes – are pornographic and gross. Women don’t want to be forced to serve or eat ‘penis cupcakes’ to make males happy at their own event. These are men that don’t enjoy what the women are doing there, because it does not focus on them enough.. I bet they snicker in delight over getting women to fight. It is time for women to ask,
‘Why are these men allowed to shame and close a woman’s fundraising tradition that is used all over the world, at a ‘woman’s event?.

Easy, if you consider it from a larger scale. It is so women discontinue coming to the event for empowerment. It is to shame survivors of sexual assault that seek out these spaces. Abusive men look for ways to access women to abuse or strike out at them for telling someone., even if they have to lie to get access to them.

If you ask me, the same principal applies to the men’s campaign to get nude males[and cameras, I imagine] in women’s spaces: Women will evacuate women’s areas and not be out in public as much. Use a public restroom, end up on a porn-page run by one of these guys.

This follows the same pattern of what men have always done. The lady-brain scam is just the latest form of male on female sexual intimidation and it is a violent intrusion – like rape. You are being used in public as this guys’ live porn- without your permission.

I would-turn around- walk right out of any public restroom out of a natural fear, even if- it were that ‘teen-boy’ in there freestyling in his skirt. A highschool teacher was raped and killed by one of her ‘teen-boy’, students not too long ago. Even small adult women are in danger when encountering a young sexually aggressive male. A six-foot tall male is still a large male with size and strength advantage over a female. I imagine he could still over power a five feet tall, 2″, 115 lb, fully grown, woman.

@ anywoman2
“The lady-brain scam is just the latest form of male on female sexual intimidation and it is a violent intrusion – like rape.”

So true.

Notice how so much of trans and perv rhetoric is about not shaming shameful pervy shit? Like jacking off in a little girls underwear? Men in general identify with this because most of them fantasize about sexually violating women and girls in some way, at some point in their lives.

That’s why men, especially patriarchal men in power, are allowing this shit to go on. They are all in with the female brain shit— salivating at the possibility that “woman” can be “defined” into sexual slavery once and for all.

These men know the only way they can legitamitely own women is to own womanhood itself. If you can’t tell a woman what to do (suck my dick), tell her what she is (a dick sucker).

If they don’t push back and just cede ground over and over, eventually the MTTs won’t have “justified” reasons to become outraged. At that point, the only way they’ll get their thrill from their woman hatred is from attacking women with no provocation. Whether libfems finally realize that these people are misogynistic men at that point remains to be seen. Unfortunately, abuse victims rarely recognize that they are not to blame and internalize all of it.

That’s exactly how I feel. I don’t give a damn what men think, feel or say about me (or rather about women, but I am intensely personalizing it here), but something in me just dies when women go along with them, defend them and/or grovel to them.

Vulva cupcakes, not vagina cupcakes. Part of their point was that people don’t know the difference. The vulva is external female genitalia and the vagina is the birth canal only. But, I agree, these men in dresses are showing their male privilege.

Men like Mya Byrne are those who demand to be allowed into women’s restrooms, dorm rooms, locker rooms, showers, prisons, barracks and store dressing rooms with women and female children. But women who want them to stay out are bigots. smh

swapping cock for pussy in cocktails? really? can you possibly fucking justify that not being straight out “well women have pussies”? why else would that be a womensfest substitute name?

like if you want to have a fucking. vagina week or some bullshit do it but don’t call it womensfest, because that’s not what it is. (edit: and if that’s the case you better fucking degender it and make sure you have information for intersex people with non-normative vulvas or non-normative hormone systems and for trans men and other people with vulvas affected by testosterone levels. AND if you’re icing cupcakes you better have icing to represent the way vulvas on poc often look drastically different from white ones.)

You better make sure every possible genetic mutation is represented in your racist fucking cupcakes, shitlords!

And there’s even more sputtering and foot-stamping:

this strong association of vulvas with womanhood makes it unsafe for literally every non-cis or intersex person ever to attend

How are these people going to survive once they leave the college campuses that coddle them in order to sucker them into crippling student debt? Oh right, I don’t care.

The big sweaty balls on these creeps, right? Women and girls have no right to be concerned about dick-swinging males in our most vulnerable spaces, but trannies are literally NOT SAFE in the presence of a cupcake! Hypocrisy and self-parody such as Fosters’ will be the end of their movement.

Honestly, I hope the Social Security Administration reverses course on allowing these assholes to claim gender identity disorder as a disability so us regular people don’t have to tolerate their drama in the workplace.

What a fucking ignorant, racist, misogynist statement. How much would you bet this person’s education on the female body was all porn. We still need WOMEN to understand there are tremendous variances in color and appearance and size even between family members. (Referencing from a documentary on labiaplasty)
It is due to misogyny and shame that a range of appearances (especially of those pesky, offensive, inner labia, <—sarcasm) within all races is not taught in school. Fuck this person.

prozac — thank you for pointing this out. Kiran’s doing what trans/queer/liberal activists do so well: projecting their shit onto everybody else.

Kiran warns us that vulva cupcakes will make certain women feel inadequate, abnormal and ashamed — i.e., “unsafe.” Because Kiran imagines that other feminists are as racist, male-worshipping, woman-hating, and self-hating as she is.

What she’s saying, in fact, is that some women really are freaks, so we must censor (or “de-gender”) any dangerous topic which may bring their freakishness to the light of day. This, of course, is the exact opposite of shame-busting; it’s the very opposite of something which raises women’s consciousness and brings women together over shared experience. Which is the point of queer tantrums: keeping other women strangers, racially divided, suspicious of one another, and focussed on keeping men happy.

And men are the ultimate reason why we must never (according to trans warriors like Kiran) associate female genitals with womanhood! Because, every time a woman tries to talk about those pesky inner labia (snort!), a cross-dressing angel loses his wings …

My word. This blind self-obsession really must lead to the end of the species, right? Is this what happened to the dinosaurs?

I’m so offended at the callous mocking of words that have real meaning to abused and oppressed people. And unfortunately, I think feminist rhetorics (even radical ones) share some of the blame. “Unsafe” and “violence” and “abuse” are all so watered down in discourse now that they have no meaning at all.

So this is the state of student activism today: violent, creepy, abusive men who force their bodies onto women and girls = not at all unsafe, women who put some sugar and food colouring on a cake = murderers.

Swapping out cock for pussy in cocktails is really … nonsensical. They could rename the roostertails, that’d take the cock out of it and conserve the meaning.

Anyway, why does the male assume that they DON’T include information for women with unusual looking vulvas? I mean, that’s kind of the whole point of it, isn’t it? That’s why we are talking about vulvas. (Unusual meaning here: FEMALE anatomy that is not taught in schools.)

From the rant above: “AND if you’re icing cupcakes you better have icing to represent the way vulvas on poc often look drastically different from white ones.”

Lolwut? Let me guess, they’re sideways, right? *eyeroll*

Although part of what makes this so much more silly (more like cringeworthy) is that reading about the event it seems you will get to ice your own cupcake, so yes, if your genitalia look “different” you should be able to reflect that in your own art.

Those are the first cupcakes to run out.
Scrool down for the photo,
vulva cupcakes [including every shade of chocolate] are commonly served at baby showers to celebrate the woman’s body that brings life. My guess is, the WOC cupcakes are the first to be picked up, or the asshole did not even look at a batch of vulva cupcakes. No [WOC, not POC, men do not have vulvas] chocolate cupcake vulva s? is he a moron?http://www.mommyish.com/2013/10/14/vagina-cakes/
Scroll down for the tray of vulva cupcakes and guess which ones get picked up first.-no problem there. These men just want to break this tradition of celebrating women’s bodies. in every woman’s group to erase women as humans that have the ability to create other male/female humans.

You don’t have to use your uterus for a baby, but the celebration of the woman’s body and ability to create and preserve life is not limited to just celebrating giving birth in varied women’s groups, so the cupcakes just focus on the women[not the birth] at most non-baby shower all-woman events.

Does this inconsiderate man demand an FGM cake[a cup cake that is gone and only has a baked film of leftover cake on the paper part] or a labia-plasty cake?

I feel sorry for the labia-plasty cupcakes- it is a thin layer of frosting, because someone already took a knife and stole the good-extra frosting parts and put the bare cupcake back- knowing that they are inconsiderate assholes that try to cover up the theft saying they somehow made the cupcake look ‘better’ by doing this. They failed. The reality is: this is a sad cupcake with the frosting scraped off.

Giving cupcakes, is giving love and life to others, from a female. Only men would be dumb enough to assume this is somehow a sex-thing,

-A solution to this dilemma: you can sell/give away donuts to represent the men with hurt feelings. The represent the men being asses at these events, and the emptiness inside from a narcissistic vacuum of a needy man crying out for women to notice them-sexually.

Angry porn-addicted men don’t like the life-giving feeling of pure unselfish love from a vulva cupcake? Of course not, MEN want more porn and masturbation with their baked goods. Simply say, Dood, eat this doughnut that looks like your ass after you stretched it fantasizing you were a siss ified, siss-person – while masturbating, . [My apologies if I ruined doughnuts for anybody-]

Trans HATE women. It’s only natural for them to have an angry, irrational response when we try to celebrate and love ourselves. They’re nothing but disgusting, hateful men and the very fact that they can’t tolerate a vagina cupcake is proof of that.

I used to teach at a university and I have to say I never cared if any of the students were pansexual, asexual, genderfluid or whatever. Mostly I wanted them to put down their damn phones and listen to the lecture I prepared.

Do these folks who want to be addressed using plural pronouns (they, them) all have lice, or rats in their pockets or something?

I taught human physiology for a while. I can’t imagine trying to teach that to any of these ultra-sensitive gender-obsessed weirdos who want every class to validate their uber-special identities. The section on reproductive physiology would have triggered them through the roof.

this strong association of vulvas with womanhood makes it unsafe for literally every non-cis or intersex person ever to attend…”

As you so rightly say, how will these little snowflakes survive a world in which only women have female genitals…? And as you rightly say, who cares?

Lots of chat about labia in this thread, and the need for luscious extra frosting. I recently came across the Large Labia project (http://largelabiaproject.org) run by a woman called Emma. Maybe you’ve all seen it before, but I was blown away. Wish I’d had this resource to drawn on as a teenager.

Such a brilliant idea – a whole site bringing joy and confidence to women who are perhaps a bit self-conscious about having vulvas that are more exuberant and frilly than the bald, nearly lipless “tidy” pale pink ones they show in porn.

I can’t understand how when women read this they are not horrified and immediately turn on the deluded males who post this bullshit. How can they still kowtow to this? Oh, did a trans ladee just die when I said that? My bad, I best stop existing:/

I skipped most of the content, it’s gross and I’m not interested. However, there were two things that really stood out to me, that I think offer important insights into anti-female trans activism.

First, in the interview with the editors all of the books and authors they mention as inspirations are by men/male. Which is no surprise (especially to readers of GT!) – but on the other hand, a very clear articulation in their own words that being a “trans woman” has fuck all to do with anything vaguely related to actual women (female people). Though, they completely fail to acknowledge this obvious pattern, instead insisting they’re really “women”!

The second observation is just how deep forced fem runs with these people. The back cover gives the etymology of the title Egg Mode – which means a male who will become a trans woman but hasn’t yet. The trans woman who created the term brags they have “hatched 50 eggs”, but then is uncomfortable when one of their proteges directly relates hatching eggs to a forced feminization fantasy. On the other hand, the editors all seem to credit Imogen Binnie’s novel Nevada as their “inspiration” for transition – specifically the sexually disturbed character james h who transitions later in the book.

The is a strain of trans activist for whome it very much IS all about sex – especially their sexual interests in violating other people’s boundaries, feminizing other males, and removing the secondary sex characteristics of females (cf Jenn Burleton’s “In a BInd” program).

I want to be clear, I am writing as a trans woman, and I am not claiming to be “exceptional” aka “true trans/basically female” here. I’m male, like the editors, and I was a big Dennis Cooper fan when I was younger, also like the editors. However, for whatever reason I haven’t engaged in sexualized boundary violation. I wish I could understand what that difference was, so that I could try to stop the abuse coming from my community.

Thank you, Gallus, for continuing to show the world how disgusting these men are and how far away from females they are. I feel more connection with females of other species than these vile self-centered, female-hating men.

This cupcake bullshit would be hilarious if it weren’t so infuriating. I read those Facebook comments. It is SO fucked-up to tell females they can’t have vagina cupcakes because people with penises who “identify” with a sex-role stereotype feel “excluded.” (And we all know that’s not what any of this is really about.) These assholes can take their laydee dicks and go …

Not sure where to post this, but here’s some great news. A book by 10 detransitioned women who tell their stories. Support your sisters, buy their book.

“Blood and Visions by Autotomous Womyn’s Press

Reconciling with Being Female. Writings by 10 womyn who stopped their transition from female to male. Profoundly personal stories, political analysis, practical advice, and resources for womyn who struggle with dis-identification from their female reality. Deeply moving and informative for all women concerned about the wholeness of our womanhood — and our sisterhood.”

Gallus,
I don’t know where to put this as I am not sure its ok to publish.
I will leave it up to you as to what you decide to do with it.

Ask yourselves why someone feels caught out or ashamed ? If you are doing something honestly and someone walks in there is no shame.
As for the trans thing, when I first came here I was a mess. I totally believed I was the problem. Nowadays I am able to think critically. In part because of this site.

Why is it that trans never, ever want to discuss their enchantment with womens clothes?

Why are we told to shut up when we say that there is a private life that we have lived that is as twisted as this guys poem?

Why are we told its not trans who do this sort of thing but some deviant sub group making trans look bad?

Why are gay kids being encouraged to accept they are Trans?

I had someone say to me this week that its not about trans, its about freedom to be who you are that is at stake. They are trans advocating freedom from persecution , who they were born to be.
I suggested that if a peodophile also wants to be free to be themselves and what is their opinion? I was told its not the same thing. I suggested they did not have a clue what they were advocating for and to do some research. I ended up with them agreeing with me as to how they had been duped.The reality was they didn’t know anyone who was trans at all and were jumping onboard to do the right thing.

How many partners out there had to go through the nursing mother kink?

How many were told they had to be the man in the bedroom, with dildos ?
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How many partners had to switch everyday between sexes?

How many partners went without due to overspending on their trans partners part?

How many partners were told by shrinks to suck it up and be supportive when the shrinks had no idea what that meant behind closed doors?

How many partners put up with anal sex because their partners found it was the prefered way to get off as they didn’t have to see your face and could imagine they were with a man?

How many partners dealt with raging anger when their partners felt their ‘womanhood’ was questioned?

How many straight partners were forced lesbians when their partners demanded they play that role?
(I still have no idea what that means to a trans person. )

How many partners felt responsible when the hormones kicked in and their partners blamed their lack of an erection on them?

How many partners were asked to do more and more obscene things, such as water sports, in an effort to help their trans partner get off and were made to feel bad when they refused?

How many partners wanted to stop but couldn’t because they had lost their ability to think for themselves?

How many people have taken the brunt of hormonally fueled rages, ending up with bruises that needed explaining away or more and were told to try harder to be understanding by their partners support network?

How many partners wanted to get help to adjust but couldn’t as their partner said it made them feel guilty if they told anyone about how unhappy they were?

There is a real undercurrent of abuse that is never spoken of due to its embarrassing content. If it is raised it is jumped on as fiction by the community as a whole and erased. This same community that believes the trans narrative and won’t look further because in reality they know that they too will be vilified for questioning the party line.

All this I experienced and others also but we are gagged. I do worry about the children who are pushed toward becoming trans before they can decide for themselves.I don’t know what can be done if honesty is frowned upon ans we remain silent.

While we are going off topic, I got an email from the Prostate Cancer Foundation the other day. Their new ad campaign is “It’s TIme To Man Up” and the text urges us to “talk to your fathers, brothers, and sons about prostate cancer.”

Tell me, why are reproductive rights groups lambasted for talking about WOMEN’s health and vaginas and ovaries without acknowledging the twanz, but the PCF can make prostates all about MEN (becuz males have prostates) without so much as a peep from the eager allies and guardians of our language in all the popular online rags? Where is feministing and everydayfeminism and even huffpo pointing out that “Some women (the ones who aren’t actual women, because they are male) have prostates” and “not all men (the ones who aren’t actual males, and the ones who had to have theirs removed becuz it was trying to kill them) have prostates, and the demand that they remove gendered words and just talk about “people with prostates?”

Oh, yeah, it’s because we take men and their health issues seriously but it’s okay to undermine efforts to address health concerns that only affect females.

Yes, the Midwives Association of North America, MANA, has removed the word ”woman” from their core competencies document and replaced it with “pregnant individual” and “birthing parent”. A group of midwives wrote an open letter to MANA focusing on the realities of biology and the erasure of ”woman” as a group within what is essentially a female experience. MANA’s letter in response is truly chilling. 4thwavenow has an excellent post here. http://4thwavenow.com/2015/09/10/of-uterus-transplants-hysterectomies-and-pregnant-individuals/

Lol, that “ask me” video. “We’re afraid of being outed, and we prefer to be called they, ze, and zer” because that’s not obvious. And the crisis of emailing 4 or 5 professors every semester. That’s an email you write once and keep a copy on file and send out again every semester, unless of course your precious identity changes every week and your instructors need new pronoun updates every Monday after your weekend kegger/testosterone injection party and all those DEEP college conversations put you in touch with some new aspect of your authentic self. That would be a lot of emails, and you couldn’t use a stock email because Ze is now Xer and you gotta rewrite that shit.

As for the vulva cupcakes, yes, apparently there are some WOC vulvas represented, but I count only 35 cupcakes/representations, and there are like, way more types of vulvas in the world, and like, unless you can like, bake 4 billion cupcakes, you are just a bigot that doesn’t want to represent everyone. FFS.

Why do people say ‘oh, you are so pretty’ when it’s obvious you look like a man in a dress with a wig?
There is a wicked queen, ‘who is the fairest of them all’/emperors new clothes blindness here.

Being a CD you are never quite done with yourself, Huh? No shit! All that fiddling and adjusting in the vid is maddening.

He says ‘ I don’t give a shit what you think ‘ and that’s the bottom line. They don’t care what you think and will do it anyhow.
Interpretation – you will have to suck it up because I am the important person and your feelings do not factor in as mine are the only ones that will be acknowledged.

In my eyes, the trans cult is the most mentally ill, hateful, violent, death-obsessed group of men out there. Their demands that we see the world as they wish us to see it frightens me more than I can properly articulate, maybe because my own mom was very ill and a master at gaslighting.

The following is maybe TMI, but I’ve been thinking about this for a while now. I don’t say much or interact much, but I want to thank everyone in this space for being as welcoming as they have been. It’s difficult for me to even make light friendships with women, based on my mom, but I lurk a lot, here, and at other woman-centered spaces and I see that women can be kind and not looking to fuck you over or hurt you. I think I feel more comfortable around men and lesbians than I do straight women, and I have no idea why that would be, but…My husband’s mom is also lesbian, and she’s a cool woman who raised a good man. Anyhow. Thank you all for being who you are, straight or lesbian. It’s nice to be in a space and not feel scared.

The smirking…I see this kind of shit and I shut down. I don’t know why this is. I actually went offline for a while because I was feeling so depressed, scared and hopeless about the trans worship. I feel like it’s everywhere. It’s so stupid but I also can’t get the memory of that asshole tranny in the bathroom at my local Target out of my head, especially whenever I see this smirk that they all pull. The smirk is basically telling women ‘fuck off, there’s nothing you can do to stop me. I’m going to be in your space and your face and you can’t do a thing about it, because the law is behind me and not you.’ When will this end? I say this constantly but it’s a bad dream for me, the worst dream. I want to wake up so fucking bad and I can’t.

A friend of mine who knows how strongly I feel about trans linked me to this person earlier today and I thought I would pass it along. Readers here might be interested, in much the same way that one is interested when they look at something grotesque. This person is actively trying to hide their past right now, and I very much hope that they won’t be allowed to get away with scrubbing the net clean of their presence. He still has a lot of funfems singing his praises, which I truly don’t understand. He’s a self admitted pedophile who has likely molested his cousin.

It seems to me that there are a lot of trannies out there who are pedos, or who think nothing about jerking off into their siblings or daughters or family’s underwear. I feel like I’m screaming into the wilderness asking “Why is this okay?” When did talking about pedophilia like it’s no big deal become a thing?

I guess I get sex pozzie/porn is fun bullshit and–well, no. I don’t. Regardless, how can anyone defend this man? He’s a man talking about wanting to fuck a child. Why is this okay to people– because he suddenly decided that he’s a woman? Why are they letting this pervert get away with it–so they don’t seem bigoted? How could anyone defend a person like this and sleep with a clear conscience? I guess I’m a bigot and an asshole and a phobic piece of shit and I don’t care, at least I can sleep at night.

Anyhow, here he is, and I hope he ends up in jail before he can hurt anyone else. Why don’t they chemically castrate these people? Would that honestly be so awful? Jesus. This stuff is really making me insane.

I feel you on this.
“I actually went offline for a while because I was feeling so depressed, scared and hopeless about the trans worship.”

Its scary because we know how dangerous this shit can (and has) become. I am sick of seeing the discussion around pedophilia (with and without trans) become so…morally relativistic.

Its depressing because at the very least, the possibility of shame made some men keep their fucking hands off children. With this “no shame” policy, men who wouldn’t, might if an opportunity arises. Especially if they have a cozy haven where they can be accepted and validated without judgement (celebrated).

I think it feels hopeless because males are creating an atmosphere where females/children will be punished morally (as well as physically, sexually, psychologically, spiritually, etc.) for “judging” male sexual deviancy than males are for the deviant acts themselves. Victim blaming/shaming was bad enough.

What fresh hell is this?

Have we heard from the sisters and daughters who were sexually violated by their fathers and brothers? The ones whose bodies and underwear, whose tampons and bras were used in fetishistic fantasies? They wouldn’t dare be such judgemental bitches.

It is a very scary world with these men in it. I don’t understand why there’s a link between trans and pedophilia but it seems like a pretty strong one.

‘Morally relativistic’ is the exact right phrase. With these tranny pedos there’s an atmosphere of exploration (that makes me want to be sick but when you look at these people talk about it that’s what they sound like, like they’re just exploring their feelings) sharing and sometimes a sort of tittering moment of faux self-awareness that it might actually be wrong to want to have sex with an eight year old. In the same way it’s wrong to look at women when they’re wearing panties and a skirt and heels, and relish in the fact that this gets them worked up.

Those things are not normal. They are sick. They are violent impulses directed towards women and children.

The media glorifies it, too. Sometimes I sit around with my husband and we stare at the television like it’s a giant insect that suddenly appeared in the room. To be trans is to be perfect. More perfect than biologically perfect. Better than any woman could be.

The media knows what kind of message this sends to women. They already know how messed up half the women in this country are from trying to fit some impossible ‘norm’ that doesn’t exist, this constantly oppressive state we try to function in. Caitlyn Jenner is a beautiful woman–more beautiful than Jessica Lange!–who never murdered anyone. Jazz Jennings is a brave and wonderful young girl who isn’t already planning to use her sister’s womb as her own personal property. Hell, Zoey Tur, with his weird macho posturing, threatening to kick someone’s ass because his reality was questioned–he’s “more male than male and more female than female. He’s the Superwoman!” (I actually read that on a message board.) Insane garbage.

Trans is the active obliteration of women. Not even figuratively. It is the removal of women from society. Funfems and sex-pozzies have to wake up, see this, and know this. It’s not a joke. No more handmaidens for these people.

And yet, and yet. The media tells us trans is so wonderful and tragic, so ‘feminine’ in their capacity for pain and suffering and tenderness and joy and on and on until our ears bleed. And if trans is so perfect and good and lovely, then how could pedophilia be wrong since they seem to go hand-in-hand? It all makes me so sick and scared.

In ten years, trans will be seen as a failed experiment, or it will be the norm. I worry that it’s going to be the norm, because everyone is so focused on their identity, on who they are and how important that is. If the trannies get their way, then I worry there will be a distinct rise in pedophilia, in grooming. We will see discussions in academia about whether or not it’s so bad for kids to be sexually active, etc. And the trannies will be right there, smiling and helping to write the legislature.

I don’t know where we’re going, but I hope we can stay strong and stay together with allies who understand and help.

Isn’t crossdressing one of the most popular paraphilias for male sex offenders? There’s your link. Male perverts, both the garden variety kind and the ones who prey on other human beings, get off on playing dress up, and the trans movement accepts these people as “real women”. If they had any sense, they wouldn’t. Male crossdressing perverts have little in common with gender non-conforming gay boys, but even the gay MTTs have no sense, and, fundamentally, this is a men’s rights movement.

It’s truly amazing what the TRM (trans rights’ movement) has been able to achieve that the official MRM hasn’t. Advocating for rapists’ and pedophiles’ rights to have access to victims (giving sex offenders access to women’s spaces; putting rapists in women’s prisons). Normalizing male sexual predation and celebrating it. Erasing women as a protected class. Replacing women in women’s sports. Reifying women’s “inherent” inferiority. It’s no wonder that quite a few MRAs are on board the trans train; they’d be stupid not to embrace their trans brothers. They have the same goals.

It’s truly amazing what the TRM (trans rights’ movement) has been able to achieve that the official MRM hasn’t. Advocating for rapists’ and pedophiles’ rights to have access to victims (giving sex offenders access to women’s spaces; putting rapists in women’s prisons). Normalizing male sexual predation and celebrating it. Erasing women as a protected class. Replacing women in women’s sports. Reifying women’s “inherent” inferiority. It’s no wonder that quite a few MRAs are on board the trans train; they’d be stupid not to embrace their trans brothers. They have the same goals.

I truly believe that if women are to survive as a free people we are going to have to undertake measures to control the male population. Abort the male fetuses and/or whatever it takes to stop this horror. As the only people who give birth to humans, women have the right to make the decisions as to which direction our species will go in. Forget sentimentality where males are concerned. Either that or be slaves forever and condemn our poor innocent daughters to the same fate.

Gallus, thank you for the link to Dirt’s site. I didn’t know she had one, but I’ll be following her blog also.

I’m glad that she’s standing up and speaking out about these disgusting groomers hanging out on FB, preying on kids. How dare those commenters tell her that she’s putting children at risk–the people putting those children at risk are pedophiles.

Sickening, the gaslighting that trannies and tranny-worshippers try to fob off on the rest of us. I’m not nuts. I can see what’s going on all around me. My vision and my perception is perfectly clear. The funfems are going to be experiencing some real problems with cognitive dissonance soon.

“I truly believe that if women are to survive as a free people we are going to have to undertake measures to control the male population. Abort the male fetuses and/or whatever it takes to stop this horror. As the only people who give birth to humans, women have the right to make the decisions as to which direction our species will go in. Forget sentimentality where males are concerned. Either that or be slaves forever and condemn our poor innocent daughters to the same fate.”

Agree completely with that.

I think mother nature has already started that trend. NA Indians, at least in my neck of the woods, claim to be having less boys.

Well, there was some notion that they are making up for their lack of adolescence. According to the shrink it was normal to regress to pubescence when on HRT and to start all over as a girl. Puke!
I swallowed that for zero seconds along with my MTT becoming more bold with what type of pornos I eventually discovered he had watched online. When he moved out he left passwords in a draw with addys that he had forgotten were there.
Those girls were not legal and he knew it and that’s when the shrink suggested it was to be expected. Sicko!

In some depressing news, Nicholas Nyberg, aka Sarah Nyberg or ‘Sarah Butts’ (charming online nick, isn’t it?), the tranny pedo I linked to above, is receiving a tremendous amount of support on Twitter from current wave feminists (and other tranny pedos, of course) after an article detailing the extent of their perversity was published online at Breitbart, which is a right wing publication.

Is it that fact that the publication is right wing that allows this to happen? To be fair, it doesn’t help that the author of the article is a gay man who’s well known for stirring the pot and has no love for women, as far as I can tell. He does think that trans is a ludicrous mental illness that shouldn’t be given the time of day. The article itself goes into a ridiculous amount of detail and fact checking, and the people defending this piece of shit are asking ‘who cares what was said in a chat log that’s ten years old’ or ‘people change’ or ‘Sarah never actually touched her cousin, she just thought about touching her cousin’. This is how they defend human waste. By saying that pedophilia is no big deal, and really, why don’t you all just forget it and move on because he didn’t actually touch his cousin, he just thought about it.

The fact that trans and hell, that this wave of feminism unapologetically embraces these sick deviants tells me all I need to know about the legitimacy of trans and feminists today, period. Since when do feminists think that pedophilia is okay? Is this the kind of crap that modern feminist thinkers teach?

Does anyone here have any children enrolled at college who can speak to this? I don’t mean have them come to the blog and discuss it, I mean does anyone have family that they can ask about it? I have a friend on FB whose daughter is sliding down the trans rabbit hole, and I’m going to ask him, but I’m wondering if there are any others who can help explain just what the fuck is going on in academia right now, since I’m a long way from those days.

Poor Bruce. He’ll never get over it, so he just has to do the best he can. The cover of Vanity Fair, his own TV show, the admiration of the president. How brave he is! But a cross-dressing man in the men’s jail? That’s an “enormous problem”! We can’t be having that kind of very problematic problem, now can we?

Here’s something I learned today: autogynephilia, and awareness of autogynephilia, are not new. In pre-Revolutionary France, the Chevalier D’Eon famously dressed up in women’s clothing, stomped about with a full beard, and insisted on being recognized as female by the state.

Havelock Ellis named the condition after hin when he first described it in the early 20th century:

EonismEdit

Ellis studied what today are calledtransgender phenomena. Together withMagnus Hirschfeld, Havelock Ellis is considered a major figure in the history ofsexology to establish a new category that was separate and distinct from homosexuality.[8]Aware of Hirschfeld’s studies of transvestism, but disagreeing with his terminology, in 1913 Ellis proposed the term sexo-aesthetic inversion to describe the phenomenon. In 1920 he coined the term eonism, which he derived from the name of a historical figure,Chevalier d’Eon. Ellis explained:[9]

On the psychic side, as I view it, the Eonist is embodying, in an extreme degree, the aesthetic attitude of imitation of, and identification with, the admired object. It is normal for a man to identify himself with the woman he loves. The Eonist carries that identification too far, stimulated by a sensitive and feminine element in himself which is associated with a rather defective virile sexuality on what may be aneurotic basis.

Ellis found eonism to be “a remarkably common anomaly”, and “next in frequency to homosexuality among sexual deviations”, and categorized it as “among the transitional or intermediate forms of sexuality.”

Holy shit, autogynephilia isn’t just an indisputable fact observed independently by several sex researchers– it’s not even NEW. Like… it was only a matter of time before these dudes started coming out of the woodwork.

Notice how the article presumes the kid is telling the truth about the rape because it doesn’t make sense for him to make the allegation — it being too humiliating and inconvenient to pursue a charge if it’s false. No one in the mainstream would EVER assume a woman was telling the truth.

Surprised (and pleased!) to see that the fact that the AirBnB host was a tranny was even mentioned!

Here’s the paragraph in question, it’s even a bit on the snarky side, IMO: “His host, who was ~born male but is living as a woman~, denied Mr. Lopez’s accusations. She denied threatening him and said that the sex act was consensual and that he is transphobic. If she is right, filing a false police report and telling the story publicly would be an unlikely way to bury a regrettable experience.”

I placed the tildes because I don’t know how to boldface, but is this this NYT’s not-so-subtle way of saying that the tranny in question is barely bothering with the act of transitioning, as so many M2T do?

Most of them don’t look as horrifying as your average PIW (although transgirltumbling is quite male, and a 41-year-old trans “girl”? *barf*). But they’re definitely not beautiful and feminine in the way most MTTs seem to want.

Being married to a graphic designer I don’t trust pictures at all. Photoshop is a helluva drug. That jaw-shaving business sounds horrific. A plastic surgeon told me that was one area they didn’t like to do because it rarely looks natural, and the jawbone is prone to infection and necrosis. Presumably the surgeons who do it well can charge premium prices.

I find myself getting increasingly annoyed with these men and the colossal waste of resources that goes into supporting them and their sexual fantasies. They make all this money and basically shove it up their asses. It’s almost criminal. This is an angle I’d never considered before. I didn’t care if grown men wanted to kill themselves for an erection as long as they stayed away from me and mine. Now I think the whole thing is obscene, not in a sexual way, though there is certainly that, but no obscene in the sense that we have people who are suffering from actual ailments who can’t get care, and these people are sucking up resources for breast implants and jaw shaves. Infuriating.

They’re straight-up lying and claiming that their new looks are simply the result of hormones. Absolute bullshit. There’s obviously – very obviously – facial feminization surgery, LOTS of electrolysis, heavy makeup, and as Nemesister said, Photoshop. (The guy with the beard? Are ya fucking kidding me?!) Of course, we’ve also witnessed how they grab a stranger’s photo(s) off the web and claim them as their own, ’cause on the internet, no one knows you’re a dog.

Errrr, the dude whose “Before” pictures look suspiciously like Chris Pratt in Zero Dark Thirty — his “After” pics are total bullshit too. Look at his nose and her nose, for starters, then the chin and forehead. Um, yeah.
No seriously, check out the noses again.
The shared tattoo is photo shopped in the “After” pics.

I remember that creep! Would you look at that mugshot – his stupid little smirk, like he’s saying, “IKR?! I can’t believe this is happening either! Poor me!” What a complete POS. But of course, the trannies painted him at the time as some sort of savior of kids – they couldn’t see that a guy wanting to walk off with some kid he doesn’t even know might just, JUST, have ulterior motives. Once again, their stupidity and arrogance have caused real damage. Good job, trannies!

I knew something was majorly wrong with that dude. If you think someone’s child is in danger, you contact their parents. If for some reason parents are non-responsive you take it to legal authorities—law enforcement, child protective services. What you don’t do is go to their house and kidnap their kid. Absolutely outrageous behavior from a full-grown man. I’m amazed they let her go with him.

Roslyn, shit like this is why I don’t donate to lesbian/gay orgs anymore. After Fialkowski showed up at that girl’s house, he was hailed as an activist hero by several LGBTQWTF sites. We’re supposed to go along with this bullshit. I refuse.

“However, the cruelty is something that Byrne doesn’t wish upon anyone. Byrne confesses that she has been followed, called names and taunted frequently. She is more aware of her surroundings and makes sure not to take the subway alone late at night. While she tells me all of this, she gets serious and says that it is often worse for trans women of color.

“I’m very lucky that I have a credit card. If somebody’s chasing me down the street I can hail a cab. Some people aren’t so lucky,” she says gravely. “People don’t realize they’re privileged or how lucky they are. My experiences of harassment have not been as severe as other people’s, but that doesn’t mean they’re any less frightening or dangerous.””

I would say less severe harassment is less frightening and dangerous, but what do I know, as a female who has spent a lifetime being aware of her surroundings and also being 5″4 and 115 lbs?